Huge Snake Found Hiding In Missouri Woman's Kitchen

A Missouri woman was shocked to have found a huge snake in her kitchen. The big ratsnake was hiding inside the woman's stove behind the electrical panel at her home in Marionville.

The Missouri Department of Conservation shared details about the incident as a post on Facebook. One of their agents was called out to the southwest Missouri home to remove the snake. When the official arrived, the snake was not found at first. Later, it was seen cozied up inside the stove. The agent was able to remove the snake from the house and release it outside.

Authorities aid the nonvenomous species of the Western Ratsnake is known to be active from April through November and is a skilled hunter of rodents.

According to MDC's website, Western Ratsnake is one of the largest and most familiar snakes in the state. It is generally black in color, but some can have dark brown blotches, and can range anywhere from 3.5 to 6 feet long.

"A Marionville resident recently requested the help of Conservation Agent Andrew Barnes after finding a western ratsnake in her kitchen. Agent Barnes found no snake when he arrived, but it was later located inside the stove behind the electrical panel. After dismantling the stove, Barnes was able to remove the snake and release it outside. This nonvenomous species is active April through November and is a great hunter of rodents," the Facebook post read.

In another recent incident, a high school cheerleader was bitten by a copperhead snake while she was practicing routines in the backyard of her home in Texas. Paris Montgomery was recording a video of herself when she stepped on something that she thought was a stick.

“I was about to go tumble on my trampoline, and I always video myself tumbling, and I was just videoing, and then I was taking my shoes off, and I stepped on a snake and it bit me on the foot,” she told Fox owned-and-operated television station KRIV.

"Something just started hurting. I didn't know it was a snake,” she added. The girl started limping to her mother and it started swelling up really quick.

“When she first came to me, she said, ‘Mom, I think something was in my shoe, or I got poked by a stick’, and so I didn’t really think it was that urgent until it started swelling. Then I thought maybe a bee stung on her, so I went and got some baking soda and put on it, and it kept getting worse, then wondered if maybe it was a poisonous spider, because I thought it was something in her shoe, because all she remembered was taking her shoe off and it hurting,” Tracy, her mother, told the channel.